Q.211

Fill in the missing name, which is common to both these:

1963 (American sponsorship): Leader: Norman Dyhrenfurth. Some of the other members: Auten, Bishop, Breitenbach, Corbet, Dingman, D. Doody, Emerson, Hornbein, Jerstad, Lester, Unsoeld, Jim Whittaker.

1965 (Indian sponsorship): Leader: Commander M.S.Kohli. Some of the other members: A.S.Cheema, Sonam Gyatso, Sonam Wangyal, C.P. Vohra, Ang Kami, H.P.S. Ahluwalia, H.C.S. Rawat, Phu Dorje.

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Mountaineer Nawang Gombu, who passed away recently. He was the first person to scale Mt. Everest twice (the above are the two successful expeditions). The nephew of Tenzing Norgay, he held several other mountaineering exploits to his name.